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ˈflesh-pot
A pot in which flesh is boiled. Chiefly in phrase the flesh-pots of Egypt (see Exod. xvi. 3), or with allusion to that phrase: Luxuries or advantages regarded with regret or envy.
1535Coverdale Exod. xvi. 3 Whan we sat by y⊇ flesh pottes, and had bred ynough to eate. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse Wks. (Grosart) II. 74 From the flesh-pots of Egipt, to the Prouant of the Lowe countreyes. 1632Lithgow Trav. vii. 299 Now well met Egypt..For we have appetite, for thy Flesh pots. 1710Swift Let. to Sterne 17 Apr., I expect to hear the two ladies lamenting the fleshpots of Cavan-street. 1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1865) III. x. ii. 213 Law, with..its high honours and deep flesh-pots. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. lxxxviii. 177 The fleshpots of the city administration had therefore greater attractions for him.
attrib.1876Ruskin Fors Clav. VI. lxiv. 112 Some flesh⁓pot comfort will always be needful for the education of such beasts as we are.
Hence flesh-pottery (nonce-wd.), high living, self-indulgence.
1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career xxix, A band of dealers in flesh-pottery. |